bodily vital parts

All parts of the human body are used for offense and defense techniques in Taekwondo.

In executing Taekwondo techniques, power comes from the body trunk; however,

the arms and legs are employed to strike the target parts of the opponent's body,

although the hands and the feet play the key roles.

The applicable parts of the body in Taekwondo are classified as follows:

applicable parts of the body :

targets of attack 

-olgul (face)

-montong (trunk)

-arae (underneath)

used in cffence and defencse

- jumeck (fist)

- son(hand)

- palmok (forearm)

- palkup(elbow)

-bal (foot)

-jeonggangyi (shin)

-mureup (knee)